Abstract:Summary
The author analyses and discusses a 10 year series of 952 premature live‐births from a Swedish district hospital where the percentage of prematures was 5.4%. The author shows that multiple births are partly responsible for prematurity and that the mothers of prematures are more frequently unmarried. The total mortality at the hospital was 21.6%, the death rate being 12.3% for the first day and 17.9% for the first week. The death rate of boy infants was significantly higher than that of girls. Obstetric… Show more
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